Programming Google Cloud. Building Cloud Native Applications with GCP 310

Companies looking to move enterprise applications to the cloud are busy weighing several options, such as the use of containers, machine learning, and serverless computing. There's a better way. Instead of helping you fit your use case to individual technologies, this practical guide explains how to use these technologies to fit your use case.

Author a learning consultant with Google, demonstrates this approach by showing you how to run your application on Google Cloud. Each chapter is dedicated to an area of technology that you need to address when planning and deploying your application. This book starts by presenting a detailed fictional use case, followed by chapters that focus on the building blocks necessary to deploy a secure enterprise application successfully.

-Build serverless applications with Google Cloud Functions

-Explore use cases for deploying a real-time messaging service

-Deploy applications to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

-Build multiregional GKE clusters

-Integrate continuous integration and continuous delivery with your application

-Incorporate Google Cloud APIs, including speech-to-text and data loss prevention

-Enrich data with Google Cloud Dataflow

-Secure your application with Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy

-Explore BigQuery and visualization with Looker and BigQuery SDKs

Rui Costa has worked at Google in various roles, most recently as a Learning Consultant working with strategic customers and partners to create and execute on their Google Cloud learning plans. He ha served as an AI Coach for the Google AI Impact Challenge and is also the founder of the Speech Analysis Framework, which has successfully graduated to become a Product within Google.

Jasen Baker has over 20+ years of IT experience starting with a job finding "commercial companies" doing business on the Internet in 1993, to founding a web hosting company in 1997. Jasen worked as a Unix engineer for 15 years working for various startups before landing technical roles at Nike, HP and eventually Google. His growing career progressed from the systems administration side, to presales, to training where Jasen enjoys an engaging career teaching the next generation of technologists about the transformation of cloud services and software development. Outside of technical training Jasen enjoys retro gaming, stock trading, and travel.